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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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About: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is a facility organization based out in Potsdam, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Climate change & Global warming. The organization has 1519 authors who have published 5098 publications receiving 367023 citations.
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TL;DR: This article showed that Rossby waves with wavenumbers 5 and 7 have a preferred phase position and constitute recurrent atmospheric circulation patterns in summer, which can induce simultaneous heat extremes in specific regions.
Abstract: In an interconnected world, simultaneous extreme weather events in distant regions could potentially impose high-end risks for societies1,2. In the mid-latitudes, circumglobal Rossby waves are associated with a strongly meandering jet stream and might cause simultaneous heatwaves and floods across the northern hemisphere3–6. For example, in the summer of 2018, several heat and rainfall extremes occurred near-simultaneously7. Here we show that Rossby waves with wavenumbers 5 and 7 have a preferred phase position and constitute recurrent atmospheric circulation patterns in summer. Those patterns can induce simultaneous heat extremes in specific regions: Central North America, Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia for wave 5, and Western Central North America, Western Europe and Western Asia for wave 7. The probability of simultaneous heat extremes in these regions increases by a factor of up to 20 for the most severe heat events when either of these two waves dominate the circulation. Two or more weeks per summer spent in the wave-5 or wave-7 regime are associated with 4% reductions in crop production when averaged across the affected regions, with regional decreases of up to 11%. As these regions are important for global food production, the identified teleconnections have the potential to fuel multiple harvest failures, posing risks to global food security8. A large-scale meandering in the jet stream can cause simultaneous heat extremes in distant regions. When Rossby waves with wavenumbers 5 and 7 dominate circulation, there is an increased risk of heat extremes across major food-producing regions, raising the potential of multiple crop failures.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors link climate change impacts to the development of adaptation strategies for agriculture in Europe and highlight the importance of enhanced water use efficiency as a critical response to climate risks.
Abstract: This study links climate change impacts to the development of adaptation strategies for agriculture in Europe. Climate change is expected to intensify the existing risks, particularly in southern regions, and create new opportunities in some northern areas. These risks and opportunities are characterised and interpreted across European regions by analysing over 300 highly relevant publications that appeared in the last decade. The result is a synthesis of the reasons for concern for European agricultural regions. The need to respond to these risks and opportunities is addressed by evaluating the costs and benefits of a number of technical and policy actions. The results highlight the importance of enhanced water use efficiency as a critical response to climate risks and the need for a more effective extension service. These results aim to assist stakeholders as they take up the adaptation challenge and develop measures to reduce the vulnerability of the sector to climate change.
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Technische Universität München1, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ2, University of Sydney3, Oregon State University4, University of California, Berkeley5, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research6, National Research Council7, University of Paris8, Kaiserslautern University of Technology9, Yale University10, University of Lisbon11, Institut national de la recherche agronomique12, Paul Scherrer Institute13, University of Alaska Anchorage14, University of Cambridge15
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight specific areas of recent progress and new research challenges in plant carbon and water relations, using selected examples covering scales from the leaf to the regional scale.
Abstract: . Stable isotope analysis is a powerful tool for assessing plant carbon and water relations and their impact on biogeochemical processes at different scales. Our process-based understanding of stable isotope signals, as well as technological developments, has progressed significantly, opening new frontiers in ecological and interdisciplinary research. This has promoted the broad utilisation of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotope applications to gain insight into plant carbon and water cycling and their interaction with the atmosphere and pedosphere. Here, we highlight specific areas of recent progress and new research challenges in plant carbon and water relations, using selected examples covering scales from the leaf to the regional scale. Further, we discuss strengths and limitations of recent technological developments and approaches and highlight new opportunities arising from unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution of stable isotope measurements.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare long-term transport energy demand and emission projections for China, USA and the world from five large-scale energy-economy models and diagnose the model's characteristics by subjecting them to three climate policies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the globally exponential synchronization of delayed complex dynamical networks with impulsive and stochastic perturbations is studied and the concept named average impulsive interval with elasticity number of impulsive sequence is introduced to get a less conservative synchronization criterion.
Abstract: In this paper, the globally exponential synchronization of delayed complex dynamical networks with impulsive and stochastic perturbations is studied The concept named “average impulsive interval” with “elasticity number” of impulsive sequence is introduced to get a less conservative synchronization criterion By comparing with existing results, in which maximum or minimum of impulsive intervals are used to derive the synchronization criterion, the proposed synchronization criterion increases (or decreases) the impulse distances, which leads to the reduction of the control cost (or enhance the robustness of anti-interference) as the most important characteristic of impulsive synchronization techniques It is discovered in our criterion that “elasticity number” has influence on synchronization of delayed complex dynamical networks but has no influence on that of non-delayed complex dynamical networks Numerical simulations including a small-world network coupled with delayed Chua’s circuit are given to show the effectiveness and less conservativeness of the theoretical results
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Carl Folke | 133 | 360 | 125990 |
Adam Drewnowski | 106 | 486 | 41107 |
Jürgen Kurths | 105 | 1038 | 62179 |
Markus Reichstein | 103 | 386 | 53385 |
Stephen Polasky | 99 | 354 | 59148 |
Sandy P. Harrison | 96 | 329 | 34004 |
Owen B. Toon | 94 | 424 | 32237 |
Stephen Sitch | 94 | 262 | 52236 |
Yong Xu | 88 | 1391 | 39268 |
Dieter Neher | 85 | 424 | 26225 |
Johan Rockström | 85 | 236 | 57842 |
Jonathan A. Foley | 85 | 144 | 70710 |
Robert J. Scholes | 84 | 253 | 37019 |
Christoph Müller | 82 | 457 | 27274 |
Robert J. Nicholls | 79 | 515 | 35729 |